Money (2017)
This book-length project explores immigrant small business owners’ unsteady pursuit of the American dream. Money opens with entries from my mom’s journal during the 2008 financial crisis. The entries are a diligent documentation of the sudden decline of our family business, weather forecasts, stock market drops, and poll ratings. The second section consists of photographs I took of bank facades, vacated storefronts, allusions to capital in the built environment, Wall Street, the Trump Building, and imagery relating to crashes, financial and otherwise.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd53a4cca12dbe696c4f420277c37e9683c36ae020d1937da2f6065f633eddb4/money-80.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80fbcbd9f3bc76717a80719b161a89e79b92a848a87970a1b19caa8f2dfa569d/money-79.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/803bcd855f7bd28aced3e9889793424fb95363aef113a08989a1fbb50b863794/money-10.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/873b818a8d39232194efe24f5e59f4224390c39f076123c02eced937b60e0519/money-65.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d57da79bb4cd5a582d42f99840dfa0114c4191dd32bdd5b403b40c1fbc9b0104/money-12-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be5e64d1a90898dfcfd031f6b86007c709cfbce0318d1bde47dddf32047e6ba5/money-7-4.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ccc3f0e0a5efdf1ffe242e9c781f744e98402fe3e6684afba80aef279f0a009/money-14.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5a2c1f2c38a9639fda1c91b3736a6f6674be34bf15c612a491d203b88be72ee/money-33.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c7268c37e1647b01979d38cc3fe4e49293f459952828ad076cf9307e283264d/money-39.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/919eba53abfd673f4f3fc3919b7adb73f2cb107593be6223362ad704d2d4c907/money-3-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33502cb740b64e218d19f5ad8791cc9d48f645c567bd0bc3c6d4d35ea03a186/money-11-3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f51bf83eb355061676d596a50f355656c23910ffcee565472f24e14d68d05791/money-6-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01818a8ac483d25723745160db2bb9f956faa5f952b05ac46bd4abc340e5bcfa/money-35.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3debcd700ea1e6cd5cfbd89d8377e800451c98014122de5f2c3ef9dd9497322/money-51.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a18e7b83f870a7838d3277b324725e8f815744302bc3f9e06f4e10449e0d6de/money-3-3.jpg)